Is that really how they sleep.. with their chins resting on the floor.. or are all my chicks suddenly ill? (brand new babies, just arrived this morning.. first time chick-owner)
Do baby chicks sleep with their heads on the floor?
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Yeah, they do that. It's pretty funny, as they usually just stop in their tracks, head down for a quick nap then up and off again.
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Yes. They'll lay flat out on the ground. It's a good thing, that's the really deep restful kind of sleep.
No thats normal as is laying flat out on the floor like they're dead! lol. I would only worry if they seem sluggish when awake or go off their food or water.
Yep, if they have room and it's warm enough in the brooder, they all sleep flat out on the shavings.
I've raised many baby birds....but I was unprepared for this when my chicks arrived in the mail. They drank alot and ate a little and SLEPT FLAT OUT for the whole first day and most of the second. Nobody prepared me for that! I had to stop watching them to keep from waking them up. Then my husband came home from work and yelled at me for not doing something to help them. Luckily I had posted here and was told not to worry! I had to make him stop reaching into the brooder to wake them up to see if they were still alive. It really is cute though once you know it's OK.
I saw several stores and the fair with chicks this weekend and all of them had a couple of their babies sleeping with their head straight out on the shavings. I would have been worried about them, but have learned it's normal. Bless BYC!
I saw several stores and the fair with chicks this weekend and all of them had a couple of their babies sleeping with their head straight out on the shavings. I would have been worried about them, but have learned it's normal. Bless BYC!
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Whewww! I figured as much as they kept perking back up. I have to say, it is sooo adorable to see them sleeping like that.
Yeah, the cutest thing is to be watching them and they are running around and then it's like a switch goes off.
STOP, must sleep this instant! What a great time. Have fun.
STOP, must sleep this instant! What a great time. Have fun.
My chicks would lay their heads on the floor and streathch out to sleep!
Scared the CRAP out of me the first time too!
Chicken chicks are pretty bad about it, but they have got NOTHING on peachicks for looking dead. The first peachick I ever hatched, I came into the room to look in the brooder... I kid you not, this bird was laying on the floor like someone had dropped him from a 15 story building... chest to the floor, wings out, head twisted around and get this: leg's sprawled out to the side! This bird was sleeping on his side! It was picture perfect for a dead chick, and unlike chickens, they do NOT wake up fast. They wake up like a teenager who wants 5 more minutes sleep. Talk about a heart attack!
Chicken chicks are pretty bad about it, but they have got NOTHING on peachicks for looking dead. The first peachick I ever hatched, I came into the room to look in the brooder... I kid you not, this bird was laying on the floor like someone had dropped him from a 15 story building... chest to the floor, wings out, head twisted around and get this: leg's sprawled out to the side! This bird was sleeping on his side! It was picture perfect for a dead chick, and unlike chickens, they do NOT wake up fast. They wake up like a teenager who wants 5 more minutes sleep. Talk about a heart attack!
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